Shnayim Yomi - Pinchas - Sheni - #2 - Rabbi Elisha Freedman - Focus On What We Have

Good morning. Welcome again to Yi. In today's aliyah sheni, the Torah gives a thorough account of Clalus after the devastating mafa which killed 24,000 yidden. Rashi tells us that this mafa is like it's a mushel to a to a shepherd a wolves came and attacked they infiltrated his flock and he they killed many of his sheep and now the wants to know how many are left he counts to see how many are left it's a very interesting Normally if a tragedy happens and many people are killed, usually the immediate response is to count how many were killed, what did we lose? And yet you see here immediately after the plague was like that wants to know how many do we have? How many are left? A big emerges from this. We could go through life and there could be losses. There could be missed opportunities. There could be things that we wish we had done. But the Tyra here is teaching us. We have to count what we have. What was lost was lost and we'll have to deal with that. But what do we have? How do we go forth from here? Similarly, Rabbi lost 24,000 the same as that connected to. Yet afterwards, he didn't sit and just fall into a depression of all the 24,000 that were lost. He said, "What do we have?" He found five more. And from those he rebuilt, he rebuilt. Focus on what we have, the gifts that we have, what we have today, what we could use to serve Hashem, and we'll go far with that.